In Korea as in the United States, we need to investigate and understand what works and what does not. This past week, the Center for Korean Studies hosted an important conference with leading scholars ...

Protesters hold South Korean flags and a placard with anti-China slogans during a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Jung District, central Seoul, in March. [YONHAP] [EXPLAINER] Nearly every ...

Legislators with the Democratic Party hold up banners demanding Yoon Suk-yeol’s resignation outside the National Assembly on Dec. 4, 2024, the day after Yoon’s shocking declaration of martial law.

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after a court found him guilty of ...

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was found guilty of masterminding an insurrection when he imposed martial law in 2024. It was the country’s ​biggest criminal trial in decades.

Woo Jung-yeop is a Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul. With a presidential election looming next year in Seoul, the South Korean news media has begun to speculate who ...

Seoul court on Thursday sentenced former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment for leading what it defined as an insurrection through his short-lived martial law decree of December ...

Impeached former President Yoon Suk Yeol could face the death penalty if he is convicted Thursday over his failed attempt to ...

Not long ago, it would have been laughable to imagine Lee Jae-myung and Takaichi Sanae as leaders that would foster friendlier ties between these countries. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung (left) ...

Seeing a new South Korea Prime Minister start feels like a TV show premiere. You’re not sure what kind of show it will be. It could be like House of Cards or Veep. The situation is more serious than ...

South Korean presidents have gained infamy for meeting untimely fates, whether death, imprisonment or suicide. And now, former president ...

While the court denied prosecutors’ request for the death penalty, the life sentence imposed on Yoon Suk Yeol is a pivotal moment for South Korea’s democracy.